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Screening: Soul Mate
Young actresses Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun deliver intense, emotionally raw performances as high school friends whose relationship is strained when they both fall in love with the handsome Jiaming.
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Young actresses Zhou Dongyu and Ma Sichun deliver intense, emotionally raw performances as high school friends whose relationship is strained when they both fall in love with the handsome Jiaming. Years later, old wounds are reopened when one of them publishes a novel based on their lives. Edmund Lee of the South China Morning Post declared Derek Tsang’s solo directorial debut “a minor masterpiece . . . a story of friendship and love that’s at once melancholy and very emotional.” (Dir.: Derek Tsang, China, 2016, 110 min., DCP, Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles)
Part of the series Twenty-Second Annual Made in Hong Kong Film Festival
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